Oil's true costs

Let's not be fooled. These are the true costs of oil: war with all its atrocities to human life; defense and its drain on our economy to protect reserves in Middle East countries; and climate change and its imminent threat to the ecological, economical and national security of our nation and the rest of the world. The science and political communities have long known the price of a global oil economy. We have been warned since the early '70s. The only entities to benefit are the petroleum and defense industries that have done a tremendously good job in debunking climate change by saying it destroys jobs and creating roadblocks to alternative energy initiatives by funding politicians' campaigns.